Server Refresh - Best Practice

We are normally a Unix shop, but do have some Windows servers, notably a new installation of SAP Solution Manager, and upcoming Bex Broadcaster and SAP Portal. All of these systems will be on Windows for reasons of cost and available technologies.
We will be refreshing our hardware (on practice) every 3 years.
For a unix environment, this would not pose a problem, since the SAP installations and databases copy easily from system to system.
My question, to my learned peers, is what is the best approach to maintain a Windows installation over hardware generations?
1) Is it simply to re-install the application and environment, then copy the database?
2) Is it to use a 3rd party tool such as PowerConvert?

Thanks, Yaroslav. Resourcing is allways an issue with VMWare. I would like to keep this thread open longer. Windows has been the OS for many large companies. Hardware refresh (not to mention DRP) happens as a matter of course. My feeling is that the best practice is simply to re-install then copy the database. I am looking for an alternate solution. -alan

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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731844(v=ws.10).aspx
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Hello,
I am starting to like JSF. But I want to know the following.
Where is the contoller in a JSF application, is it the Managed Bean???? or a Backing Bean?
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tsumugari wrote:
Hello, DNS for simple name resolution work correctly for internal and external name. Internal it is .lan and external .fr
I think there is perhaps SRV entry to add.
Please do not use .LAN as your top-level domain. That's not a valid top-level domain right now, but it's also not reserved for this sort of use. Either use a real and registered domain, or a subdomain of a real and registered domain, or — if you squat in a domain or try to use a TLD that's not registered — expect to have problems as new top-level domains are added. At the rate that the new TLDs are coming online from ICANN, I'd expect to see .LAN get allocated and used, too.    .GURU, .RIP, .PLUMBING and dozens of other new top-level domains are already online, and probably thousands more are coming online.
SRV records are not related to accessing the Internet, those are service records which some applications use to access certain network services; they're a way to locate a target server and a port for specific applications — CalDAV does use an SRV record, but that's not related to the original posting's issues.   If you're having issues similar to the OP, then access your server and launch Terminal.app from Applications > Utilities and verify local DNS with the (harmless, diagnostic) command-line command:
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I usually do this DNS set-up in a couple of steps. First, get private DNS services configured and working. This is always the first step, right after assigning the IP addresses.   It's just too convenient not to have DNS running on your local LAN, once you get to the point of having and running a server.   Then for external access for (for instance) web services, get port-forwarding working at the firewall/NAT/gateway box working; get your public static IP address mapped to the server's internal, private, static IP address. Then get the public DNS configuration to resolve your external domain name to your public static IP address.
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Little of the above probably makes sense, so here's a write-up on configuring DNS on OS X Server.   All of the Server.app stuff works about the same for general DNS setup, too. More recent Server.app is usually more flexible and capable than the older Server.app stuff, though.

Windows java server node best practice?

I'm coming from the windows/.NET world where I would usually expect a service that can be managed from the services applet or via the usual command line remote admin utils and doesn't need to interact with the console. Starting a java instance in a command window seems a bit odd to me.
I imagine it would need to use some mechanism to run at startup and not require a logged in account or manual intervention. What's the best way to do this?

You can also check Apache Daemon Procrun (http://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html). I haven't tried it, but it should be able to do the job.
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